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Sporadic Files Will Not Backup

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I am having an issue with Acronis Home 2010 (build 6.053). I create a weekly job to backup My Documents on the primary machine where Acronis is installed and also My Documents on 2 other machines on the network. The primary machine backs up fine and PC#2 is fine also, but PC# 3 is the issue. All 3 machines are Windows XP Pro SP3.

Acronis has a problem backing up only SOME files (only a handful out of approximately 350 fail to backup on this machine). The files that fail backup are various file types and directory locations (.EXE, .JPG, .PDF etc). Now if I monitor the backup job and skip those files when the error comes up, the backup job is successful. These files do exist and they are not corrupt because I can open them without a problem. I need some help. I can't figure out what's going on.

Please advise with suggestions.

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What does chdksk say when you run it with /f? Also, in each case the file paths are correct and the drives are local drives or network drives?

I use chkdsk /r (which assumes /f) to try and repair bad sectors, but that does not work. I ran it 3 times and each time it comes back with "4KB in bad sectors"? Would that definitely be the problem?

Yes, the paths and drives are fine. Like I said, if I do an attended backup of that machines My Documents folder, the message for sporadic files comes up, I skip pass those 5-6 files and the backup completes successfully. But of course if I did unattended backup, it would fail.

What do you think?

Very likely the problem. IF chkdks can't fix the prob. You might want to try a diff hard drive; yours could be going south.

If it was me, I'd try a full disk back up and resotre to a new drive. If that works, then the old drive isn't reliable enough to keep using-- especially not at today's prices for harddisks.

Scott...

I agree with you. When I first saw the 4KB in bad sector error and chkdsk could not fix it, it made me feel uneasy. You're right, why wait for it to fail, just replace the drive.

Thanks for your confirmation.

CBosse